Fish & Bicycle Theatre Company

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Where are we next?

Fish & Bicycle begins it's third year! Check out our show this summer in Cape Cod, Mass.!

For more info and to follow our activities on the Cape and elsewhere, check out our blogspace at fishandbicycle.urbanjuju.com.

F & B began it's theatrical revoluccion in 2007 in a backyard in Sandy Springs, GA. Heavily influenced by physical theater, circus arts, story telling, and some delicious southern sweet tea, the group is here to teach the world to co-exist...

Our Mission:

Fish & Bicycle is a group of young theater artists experimenting with unconventional approaches to creating performance, inspired by circus arts, the many dimensions of time and space, and the training methods of Olympic athletes. The group believes that the most powerful and intimate experience is to witness the journey beyond the limitations of the physical body and the realm of the imagination, into the dreamlike place where anything in the external and internal world becomes possible.

No stage as of yet is big enough to fit Fish & Bicycle’s large-scale spectacles. Instead, the group creates original, site-specific works in backyards, playgrounds, campuses, parking garages, or wherever else feels right. Fish and Bicycle exists to serve the community in which it performs. Therefore, the creation and production of the work is a collaborative and community effort, open to the public, on a pay what you can basis, and always for the people by the people. Come support us. Come join us. To the struggle!

Who Are We?

Jessica Unker

Jessica “Junkie” Unker welcomes you to the magick of Fish & Bicycle Theatre Company! Serving as Producing Artistic Director since the company's birth, Jessica can be found throughout the year exploring, collaborating, and learning from the country's best. After a southeastern tour with Atlanta's Georgia Ensemble Theatre, Jessica began working extensively with companies such as the SITI Company, Double Edge Theatre, Out Of Hand Theater, and Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, all with a focus on Suzuki/Viewpoints, Grotowski, and Theatre of Acrobatic Movement. Raised in the South and an alumni of University of the Arts, Jessica has now moved on to melding circus arts with a theatrical spectrum in hopes of allowing an audience to have a truly beautiful artistic experience. After writing F & B's first two productions "The Death and Life of Pan" as well as "The Adventures of Jesitha and Andronikis:The Search for Love!", Jessica will be co-directing F & B's newest piece "Prometheus!: An Oxidized Tale of Creation" this summer in Cape Cod, MA.

Nathan R. Green

Nathan R. Green is a co-founder and co-artistic director of Fish & Bicycle Theatre Company. Nate directed the first two site-specific F&B shows, The Life and Death of Pan (co-directed), and The Adventures of Jesitha and Andronikis. He completed a directing internship at the Actors Theatre of Louisville where he directed Edge Play, as well as apprentice company solo & ensemble collaborations, in addition to workshopping his original Thanksgiving Pageant adaptation of Macbeth. At Actors he assisted on 4 mainstage shows including the Neo-futurist play 43 Plays for 43 Presidents. At the Humana Festival of New American plays he assisted Anne Bogart for the SITI Company production of Charles Mee’s Under Construction. He blogs about this experience at http://urbanjuju.com/siti/. He has also assisted Israel Hicks, Sean Daniels, Michael Dixon, and Josh Hecht. Nate has worked extensively with Atlanta’s Out of Hand Theater, appearing in their hit show Meds in 2007. He graduated with highest honors from Emory University having written his thesis on the place of theater in a mass media culture.

Andrew McGill

Andrew Hastings McGill, founding member and Atlanta native, has been an actor his whole life (and according to a well renowned psychic, was an Actor for at least three separate past lives). For the past five years, Andrew has been assembling a team that is not only smart but sexy. Trained in Suzuki, Viewpoints, and various magikal methods, Andrew produces theater that radically interprets the action of the world around him and inside him. With a very "Do It Yourself" mentality, he disregards the Western education system and all of its pomp and rigor. He simply asks artists to consider every breathing moment as part of a never-ending education, and to read books, please? He wants you to know that its all going to be OK.

Shannon McKenna

Shannon McKenna has been a member of Fish & Bicycle from the beginning, appearing as the Witch Doctor in The Death and Life of Pan, and as Lady Arcane in Jesitha and Andronikis in the Search for Love. After a two-year stint with traditional acting at NYU’s Meisner Extension, Shannon began focusing on developing original work through writing and choreography. To this end, she has worked with companies such as Double Edge Theatre, Out of Hand Theater, and The Glass Company, as well as with theater geniuses like Mary Overlie. In 2008, she studied closely with playwright Roy Kendall in London to learn traditional methods of dramatic structure and playwriting. When she’s not traveling or doing various F&B related tasks, you can find Shannon standing on her head at a yoga studio, performing her sick slam poetry, or creating invisible theater pieces in the East Village. She believes in a balls-to-the-wall, super-sweet, spectacular, hit-you-where-it-hurts-but-you-know-you-like-it, so-wrong-it's-right-kind theater and is happy to provide it to you all in the form of F&B. Worked her ass off and paid too much for a B.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts

J. Trevor Jones

J. Trevor Jones is studying Arts Administration with an emphasis in Theatre and Non-profits at Georgia State University. He has been actively involved in Fish & Bicycle since nearly the beginning. For inspiration toward F&B, Trevor has worked under the direction of Actor Express Artistic Director Freddie Ashley. He has been in both of F&B's past productions, Jesitha and Andronikis in the Search for Love and The Death and Life of Pan. His involvement in the company has included set design/construction, physical enhancement exercises, procuring of props, ensemble building/ leadership, performing magical feats of acrobatics, and all other fantastical tasks asked of him. He is currently building his experience on the silk and dance trapeze as well as heading the creation of the new Fish & Bicycle spectacle... Prometheus! An Oxidized Tale of Creation.